Aristophanes

This level of love is considered the type of love that is still physical attraction, but instead of only that, the love is deeper. Pausanias, Agathon, and Aristophanes are considered on this level. All three of the speaker’s quotes are similar on their knowledge of love. They show very similar meanings and understandings. Pausanias explains the relationship between a young boy and a man. “the lover appreciating…

He included two characters so that the storyline would involve dialogue, but focus on the tragedy itself. His plays had characters go through murders, revenge, heroes and disasters creating the drama he envisioned. Aristophanes is one of the greatest comedic writers of Athens and that’s because his narratives are written about politics, reality, and power in women by adding a twist of using humor to express his ideas. He includes his strategic plans with the pun additives…

individual has a concern for issues in society. This scene is a great representation of Greek theatre as it fuels tragedy with the element of deception and adds social conscience into this scene since Jim realized he is a target intended for a setup. Aristophanes is one of many Greek playwrights that utilizes social conscience. In addition to Greek theatre, memory plays are plays that are being told by a character’s past memory. This play is a true example of this, since it is being told from…

widely acclaimed as one of the most notorious demagogues. Although an Aristocrat by association in politics, Cleon stood by what today we would call the working class. Not revered by the upper class, Cleon received much negativity, especially from Aristophanes and Thucydides (whose speech will be mentioned later) who wrote negatively. Cleon was anti-aristocratic, this led him a very wide populist following and influence. He was in charge of operations against Sphaeteria, which was earned as a…

Much of Socrates’ life is accounted for in quick snippets of stories told through Plato, Aristophanes and Xenophon. Seeing as their main goal was to make points about philosophical ideas, these depictions of Socrates tended to be vague and inaccurate (biography.com). Plato's Symposium focuses heavily on describing Socrates’ appearance. “He was…

The texts Plato Symposium and Sappho, Selected Poems discuss the topic of love as experienced by a select few of society- and thus reject the notion that love is a universal human experience. Through this essay, love will be examined as it pertains to each text and then these ideas will be observed to understand how they reject the notion that love is a universal human experience. Set in ancient Greece, Plato’s work titled Symposium presents his view that love can only be experienced by men and…

The Birds: Anthropocene Warning or Comical Prank? Humanity was not always on Earth, despite the long debate of how humans came to be, humans have caused many changes to the Earth. Over the many years humans have been on Earth there have been many challenges humans have faced and overcome. They have tried to put together Earth’s record of a timeline through history, which is called Geological Time Scale. In this time scale the periods of time have been divided and called epoch(s). Each epoch has…

Drama is one of the three major literary genres, besides prose and poetry, and while it can contain both other generic forms, it fundamentally differs from both. Mostly because drama, in the broadest sense, is a work of art meant to be performed on stage. So, we can say that drama is a performative genre, both communal (created by the play-going society, a community of theatre-makers and playwrights) as well as time and space-specific. I will compare between Drama and Comedy. Firstly, we will…

ancient Greece and two types of plays which were written and performed were comedies and tragedies. A comedy, in ancient Greece, was usually a play that marked or made fun of a certain topic, person, or group of people. One famous comedy writer was Aristophanes. He wrote the plays The Birds and Lysistrata. A tragedy, in ancient Greece, usually dealt with a moral or social issue, human suffering, and almost always ended in disaster. Three famous Greek tragedy writers are Aeschylus, Euripides, and…

One morning I was sitting in my English class when my teacher handed us a piece by Jerome Stern called “What They Learn in School”. I’m not a big reader so I wasn’t too thrilled about reading Stern’s poem. However, I did become curious once I read the first line. Stern began his poem by stating how “In the schools now, they want them to know all about marijuana, crack, heroin, and amphetamines, because then they won 't be interested in marijuana, crack, heroin, and amphetamines.” I have been…